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Strong point! As a non-CS engineering student learning C++ for the first time, the compiler all but turned me off from wanting to be a programmer. No one explained why the compiler…

Agree. But is it just programmers that don't care about the thinness of their keyboards and want something functional and high performing ? It perplexes me why non-programmer consu…

Technically the C preprocessor is purely functional!

It seems people are conflating "low adversity score" with "my perfect SAT score is ruined because my family lives in the nice suburbs". I think this is just meant to add some stand…

JEP draft: Remove NullPointerException from language

Capitalism 101

1) Syllabus for the accompanying Harvard course https://cs121.boazbarak.org/syllabus/ 2) Author is heavily inspired by Sipser and the previous CS121 course taught by Harry Lewis. S…

He also encourages students to make a pull requests when they find errata. I can see the argument that this "open sources" the literature and brings students closer to it. However …

I just took CS121 recently and echo this. Theoretical CS is really a broad topic to cover in a semester. The early sections on computability theory, CFGs, regex are really good. On…

How are the "algebraic data types" algebraic if they don't express any relation to each other? This seems like a cool syntactic layer for people that are already writing Python and…

This seems psychotic. Why not put the same energy into rewriting this code correctly in a statically typed functional language?

What about hackathons? Open source sprees? Meeting people from your language/framework/trade IRL and forming relationships?

It's starch, dairy and processed/cured meat regardless how you make it. Usually meetups serve from counter takeout chains which makes it even worse. There is no argument for pizza …

Why is it called LambdaSchool when they teach "JavaScript, Python and C"? Clicked hoping to see a functional programming oriented bootcamp. We need one of those.

This is a common paradigm in object-functional programming, as it further emphasizes the duality of functions and the data they return. Scala allows one to do this, however one cou…

I refer to this as the "spaghetti law of attraction". The burden of refactoring things gets higher and higher and no one wants to touch it. So they just add another try-catch block…

I sometimes wonder if programmers instinctively overcomplicate things in interest of collective job security. Some of the stuff I've seen in (particularly awful) Java code bases is…

Data scientist, programmer and software engineer are different things. They are not disjoint by any means, but this guy is conflating them in a way that's totally wrong. Software e…

didn't they deprecate the gateway last year?

This type of signaling is very real and present in functional programming languages specifically. Java programmers feel insecure because they're not writing Scala, the Scala people…

Your story sounds too familiar. I worked at a snake oil startup for almost 2 years, essentially a "Theranos" for food (google "vegan mayo scandal" to get the incredible whole story…

I get so many robocalls I don't even bother with call notifications anymore. If they're a friend, they'll probably text instead. If it's a business matter, they'll leave a message.…

Regardless of efficacy, it's the law in SF to wear a helmet on those things